July 2010 |
Carbon Resources Selects Hawkins Water Treatment Group for Distributorship
Carbon Resources has signed an exclusive distributor agreement with Hawkins Water Treatment Group out of Minneapolis, MN to distribute the NSF 61 certified sabre series CR325AA-10 powder activated carbon in the municipal market. Hawkins will be responsible for following 16 states: Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee and Wisconsin. “The Hawkins Water Treatment Group is very synergistic to our marketing approach in that we use technical sales people that understand customer needs and product application.” States Kimberly Walsh, Director of Marketing.
The Hawkins Water Treatment Group, part of Hawkins, Inc., supplies products and equipment to treat drinking water, municipal and industrial wastewater, industrial process water, and non-residential swimming pool water. They have 16 branch offices covering 15 states in the heartland. They utilize a route/salesperson approach in supplying products and equipment to their customers. Each branch has several driver/technician/salesperson trained to handle on-the-spot service on the equipment they sell, as well as helping our customers find system solutions.
Hawkins Product Development Manager, Mark Oberhelman commented. “Carbon Resources superior product has been proven by several municipalities to outperform the traditional powder activated carbon products on the market. We have conducted head to head evaluations against competitive products and demonstrated superior performance in both taste and odor and TOC removal applications With their years of experience in activated carbon as well as their technical and customer service support; we found them to fit in perfectly with our business model."
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June 2010 |
Another Successful Year at American Water Works Association
Carbon Resources exhibited at the ACE10 American Water Works Association tradeshow that was held this month in Chicago, Illinois. An informal survey was conducted by Janney Capital Markets with roughly 100 exhibitors**. About 70% of the respondents felt sales were either on par or up by single digits versus one year ago and most expected sales to accelerate in the next year with 40% expecting double-digit growth. We anticipate that some of this growth will be coming from the disinfectant by-product rule mandated by the EPA that goes into law in 2012.
There was strong interest in our sabre series™ CR325AA powder activated carbon especially for those municipalities that do performance based bidding. This product has proven time and time again to be the most cost effective product for geosmin and MIB removal. Carbon Resources will even offer comparative testing in some cases, to those municipalities that currently don’t have a system in place to allow for performance based bidding.
Committee member Robert Potwora, Carbon Resources’ Technical Director, attended the AWWA Standards Committee meeting on Activated Carbon held during the event. The committee is currently updating the B604-05 Granular Activated Carbon standard for drinking water. An updated standard is expected to be released this year and Carbon Resources will update our readers when it becomes available.
Carbon Resources would like to congratulate Mr. Robert Maul of American Water Co.-Western Division, St. Louis, MO. Mr. Maul was the winner of the iPod touch drawing that Carbon Resources offered during this event. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth and introduced yourselves.
Next year the American Water Works Association ACE11 will be held in Washington DC from June 12-16. Carbon Resources will be exhibiting and potentially presenting a technical paper.
**Janney Capital Markets Equity Research Industry Report June 28, 2010.
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May 2010 |
Robert Potwora Attends ASTM International D-28 Committee Meeting
The spring meeting of the ASTM International D-28 Activated Carbon Committee was held April 19 in St. Louis. This was the first meeting Robert Potwora presided in his newly elected position as Vice-Chairman. In this position he also serves as the committees Membership Chairman. There were several attendees representing the manufacturing side and end users of activated carbon as well as new affiliates accepted. A web based teleconference was held for members who could not attend.
There were several items regarding long term and short term projects covered at this meeting for liquid phase and gas phase testing. One of the items being reviewed was the need for a precision and bias statement for the pH test method. Carbon Resources will participate in an interlaboratory study to generate this data. Also up for discussion was the status on the development of a new test method to measure the adsorptive capacity of activated carbon for mercury in flue gas. The flue gas market could be one of the largest single markets for activated carbon and standardization is critical. It was unanimously decided that there is a growing need for standardized test methods and because of this, the committee is planning to conduct a teleconference in August in order to keep the development of these standardized tests progressing.
The next regular meeting is scheduled for October 11 in San Antonio. At this meeting there will be more discussions on refining some of the definitions and a review of potential university studies.
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March 2010 |
Our Lucky 13th Year at the Water Quality Trade Show!
Carbon Resources exhibited for the thirteenth year in a row at the Water Quality Association that was held in Orlando, Florida on March 9th through the 12th. We emphasized our Spartan Series® and Sabre Series® activated carbons, which meets the strict California standard for arsenic elution. The Spartan Series® is surface modified to enhance the removal of specific compounds such as chloramines and hydrogen sulfides and has proven to be one of the best on the market. Our standard Sabre Series® products have been used for years in the carbon block market meeting the strict California standard for arsenic elution.
Congratulations to David Byrnes at Access Business Group for winning the iPod Touch. David’s business card was randomly selected from over a hundred entries and we hope he enjoys it!
Carbon Resources Will be Exhibiting at the California/Nevada AWWA Conference in Hollywood, CA on March 31st
This year’s program is called “In The Trenches”. The hot topics and seminars will be on treatment of hexavalent chromium and will include a technical tour of the Los Angeles-Glendale Water Reclamation Plant, communicating with your customers during an emergency and traffic work zones and a tour of the Metropolitan Water District’s Jensen Filtration plant where the participants will be able to view the various treatment steps.
Carbon Resources will be emphasizing our sabre series® CR325AA-10 high activity, performance based powder activated carbon that is proving to be one of the best powder activated carbons on the market for taste and odor.
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February 2010 |
NSF 61 Certified sabre series® CR325AA-10 Wins Performance Based Bid
Carbon Resources recently received NSF 61 certification on their sabre series® granular and powder activated carbon for municipalities and wins a performance based bid for the Washington County Water Conservancy District. “Winning this bid at Washington County Water Conservancy District in St. George, Utah solidified all our outside laboratory testing that proved the sabre series® CR325AA-10 outperforms most of the commercially available powdered activated carbons on the market for taste and odor. In fact, in this specific test, it outperformed 11 products that were made from wood, coal and lignite based powders” states Robert Potwora, Technical Director. “There are several other municipalities testing this product who are also seeing similar results and we anticipate a large demand for this product.”
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January 2010 |
Robert Potwora Elected Vice Chairman of ASTM International D-28 Committee
Robert Potwora, Technical Director Carbon Resources, was named Vice Chairman of ASTM International D-28 committee. His term is for two years. The committee is responsible for the development of definitions of terms and nomenclature, methods of test for activated carbon, and the promotion of research in this field. The committee oversees 5 subcommittees; liquid phase tests, gas phase tests, nomenclature, long range planning and executive. Currently 28 standards are under the jurisdiction of this committee. The committee is currently working on new standards for floaters in activated carbons, vapor pressure drop through activated carbons and adsorptive capacity for mercury in flue gas. The committee will meet this spring in St. Louis and this fall in San Antonio.
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December 2009 |
Carbon Resources Receives 2009 Best of Oceanside Award
U.S. Commerce Association’s Award Plaque Honors the Achievement
WASHINGTON D.C., June 8, 2009 – Carbon Resources has been selected for the 2009 Best of Oceanside Award in the Chemicals & Allied Products category by the U.S. Commerce Association (USCA).
The USCA “Best of Local Business” Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USCA identifies companies that they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community.
Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2009 USCA Award Program focused on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered by internally by the USCA and data provided by third parties.
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November 2009 |
Ken Schaeffer writes Article for Water Quality Products
An article written by Ken Schaeffer was published in the Water Quality Products magazine titled “Controlling Contamination with Carbon”. The article provides a general overview of the more common contaminants found in water and removed by activated carbon.
See article link for full article.
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October 2009 |
Tradeshows, Awards and Volunteerism
At its first exhibition, the newly designed tradeshow booth for Carbon Resources won the “IMPACT” award for its originality and effectiveness of design at the CA/NV American Water Works Association conference and exhibition held in Las Vegas. This booth will be displayed at next months AWWA conference in Seattle.
In November we will be exhibiting at the Water Quality Technology Conference and Exposition in Seattle from November 15th-19th. Robert Potwora, Technical Director, will be attending his first meeting as a voting member on the AWWA Standards Committee on Activated Carbon.
Carbon Resources employees are volunteering at the 7th Annual Beer Festival held at GreenFlash Brewery, Vista, CA to benefit the Fight ALD charity on November 14th. Fight ALD was started by Janis Sherwood who lost her 8-year old son to this disease in September of 2003. ALD stands for adrenoleukodystrophy and was popularized by the 1992 movie “Lorenzo’s Oil”. This deadly disease leaves the body unable to breakdown big fat molecules which eventually build up and clog nerve cells associated with the brain and spinal cord. Sonia Hollingsworth, Aubrey Schaeffer and Ann Harding will be the dedicated volunteers at this function.
In October, Kimberly Walsh volunteered at the “Brittany’s Blessings” event sponsored by Kiwanis Club of Fountain Valley, CA. This event takes about 30 children who were picked for economical needs through various organizations such as Boys and Girls Club and are taken to Wal-Mart to spend $125 each on school clothes twice a year. The day is dedicated to the memory of Brittany Daniels who is the daughter of Rita Daniels who passed away at age four by a rare aggressive form of strep.
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September 2009 |
October is the Month for Various Tradeshows and Meetings
For the first time, Carbon Resources will be exhibiting at the CA/NV American Water Works Association Tradeshow held at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas from October 5th to October 8th. We will also be exhibiting at the Pacific Water Quality Association conference in Palm Springs, CA on October 13-16th. Ken Schaeffer will be giving a presentation titled “Comparison of Coal versus Coconut shell carbon for the POU/POE Water Treatment Industry”. This will be of particular interest due to recent arsenic issues with Prop 65.
In addition, the ASTM D-28 committee that governs activated carbon manufacturing protocols will be meeting in Atlanta on October 21st and Robert Potwora who is Vice-Chairman of this committee will be attending. Robert will also be attending the 24th Annual International Activated Carbon Conference in Pittsburg, PA from October 6th through October 8th.
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August 2009 |
Robert Potwora Will be Joining the AWWA Standards Committee on Activated Carbon
With his 30 years of experience in the activated carbon industry, Robert Potwora, Carbon Resources’ Technical Director, has been appointed to be a voting producer member of the AWWA Standards Committee on Activated Carbon. This appointment was endorsed by the committee chair and chair of Standards Council and is effective August 10th.
This committee develops and maintains standards, manuals and reports, on adsorptive characteristics of activated carbon for potable water treatment. This committee has responsibility over the current AWWA standards, B600-05 Powdered Activated Carbon, B604-05 Granular Activated Carbon and B605-07 Reactivation of Granular Activated Carbon.
Carbon Resources will be marketing their Sabre Series powdered activated carbon to the municipal market this fall. It has excellent adsorptive properties for taste & odor removal.
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July 2009 |
Robert Potwora Writes a Technical Article for the June 2009 edition of Water Conditioning and Purification Magazine
Last month Robert Potwora published an article titled “Chlorine and Chloramine Removal with Activated Carbon”. In this article, Robert discusses how chlorine and chloramine are formed, their reactions and the factors necessary to treat each compound using different types of activated carbon. Test data on Spartan series® (surface-enhanced activated carbon) is presented, which more readily removes chloramines.
See article link for full article.
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June 2009 |
Carbon Resources would like to congratulate Hank Childers of Washington County Water Conservancy District in Utah. Mr. Childers was the winner of the iPod touch drawing that Carbon Resources offered during the AWWA ACE09 event held in June in San Diego, California. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth and introduced yourselves.
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June 2009 |
Kimberly Walsh writes article in Water Quality Products Magazine
In March of this year, the Water Quality Products Magazine published an article written by Kimberly Walsh which covered treating bacteria with activated carbon. The article focused on the benefits of a new antimicrobial agent that is impregnated onto activated carbon (called BioGard™) for its bacteriostatic effects over the traditional silver impregnated activated carbon.
This newly introduced BioGard™ activated carbon product illustrated a 99.99% reduction in bacteria in a recent NSF 42 test performed on a carbon block. Not only is this product safer than silver impregnated products, it is less expensive and lasts longer.
See article link for full article.
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May 2009 |
Carbon Resources is “Making A Splash” at The AWWA Trade Show
Carbon Resources will be exhibiting for the first time at the American Water Works Association Annual Conference and Exhibition (ACE 09), which will be held at the San Diego Convention Center from June 14-18, 2009.
“Our theme is “Making A Splash” says Kimberly Walsh, VP of Marketing. “Although we have only begun marketing our Sabre and Spartan Series® activated carbon products to the municipalities this year, we have a lot to offer to this market. And with our new JV plant coming on line in Mexico, existing plant expansions, and our technical expertise, we can provide the municipalities a high quality, cost effective alternative for their activated carbon needs.”
At a time when supply is tight and prices are increasing, customers need an alternative supplier of activated carbon. With its management team of 90 plus years experience in water treatment, Carbon Resources, LLC fills a much needed void in this market.
Stop by booth 2143 and register for an iPod Touch which will be given away during the show.
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April 2009 |
Robert Potwora Gives Technical Presentation to a Standing Room Only Crowd
Despite this year’s limited attendance at the Water Quality Association Trade Show in Rosemont, Illinois, the presentation given by Robert Potwora certainly was well attended. The presentation was on “Chlorine versus Chloramine Removal with Activated Carbon.” We had several people stop by the booth afterwards asking for a copy of the technical bulletin on the presentation.
There are some important differences in treating chloramines versus traditional chlorine removal with activated carbon. These differences are critical in having an effective system. As concerns over chloramines continue to grow, manufacturers like ourselves are coming up with new innovative products to efficiently remove chloramines. Our Spartan Series® product has several advantages over our competitors such as cost, activity, dust and hardness.
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March 2009 |
Robert Potwora writes technical article for Water Technology Magazine.
Robert Potwora wrote an article that was published in the March 2009 publication of Water Technology Magazine titled “A POU Workhorse – the Carbon Block Filter”. The article reviews how they are made, evaluated and compares carbon blocks with granular activated carbon (GAC). It also discusses new bacteriostatic carbons blocks that are not based upon silver, but BioGardTM.
Click here to read full article.
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February 2009 |
Carbon Resources Exhibits for the 12th Year at WQA Trade Show and for First Time at AEHS Trade Show in March.
For the first time, Carbon Resources will be exhibiting at the Association for Environmental Health and Sciences (AEHS) Trade Show that will be held from March 9th-11th at the Marriott Mission Valley Resort in San Diego, CA. “For many years we have been supplying this industry with system design/technical support, quality carbon adsorption systems and turnkey carbon change out service, but we have not been very active and supportive of the annual conference. We look forward to participating in this year’s conference and catching up with a lot of our customers,” states Kimberly Walsh, Vice President of Marketing.
Also for the 12th year in a row Carbon Resources will be exhibiting at the Water Quality Association (WQA) Trade Show at the Rosemont Convention Center in Chicago, IL on March 18th – 20th. During the conference, Robert Potwora, Technical Director; will be giving a presentation on Thursday March 19th at 10:00 am in the Education Area I. Robert’s presentation will be on “Chlorine and Chloramine Removal with Activated Carbon”.
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January 2009 |
Carbon Resources Becomes a Member of the American Water Works Association (AWWA)
“We have traditionally steered away from the municipal market” remarks Kimberly Walsh, Vice President of Marketing, “but with the capacity of our unique sabre series® “A” product increasing fourfold in the next 10-12 months coupled with short supply and price volatility, we now feel it is perfect timing to address this market.”
Carbon Resources will be exhibiting at the American Water Works Association ACE annual conference and exposition that will be held in the San Diego Convention Center from June 14-18, 2009. The ACE conference is the most comprehensive and diverse water conference in the United States. “This trade show will be great visibility for us and it is only 20 miles from our corporate office” says Kimberly.
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December 2008 |
Kimberly Walsh is elected to Board of Directors of Rehostar, Inc.
During a two week trip to Africa this summer with her daughter, Kimberly was moved to act and decided to dedicate some of her time and resources by becoming an active Board Member of Rehostar, Inc. “I strongly feel a commitment to ‘give back’ and utilize my talents in supporting projects and trips to build sustainable means for those less fortunate and I am grateful to be doing this with my family who is equally committed.”
Rehostar is an international relief and development organization that creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger and education. It begins by investing in one small Namibian village, Rehoboth, to create a working model that can be duplicated throughout the world. “What makes Rehostar so special to me is the fact that 100% of our donations we receive goes back into the community of Rehoboth. There are not a lot of organizations that can make that claim.” Says Kimberly. “Like many communities in Africa, the need for drinking and agricultural water is in demand and since I have contacts in this industry, I hope to network with the companies that Carbon Resources works with to support one of the many projects we will be working on in the next decade.”
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November 2008 |
Robert Potwora attended the Industry Forum and Joint Committee on Drinking Water Treatment Units (DWTU) Standards held at NSF World headquarters in Ann Arbor, MI this month.
The Industry Forum is composed of industry representatives while the joint committee includes industry representatives, regulators and product users. The committees met to review the NSF/American National Standards on DWTU (Drinking Water Treatment Units) to ensure they are current given the development of new technologies and the discovery of new contaminants in the drinking water supply.
The task force on Endocrine-Disrupting Compounds (EDC) and Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCP) proposed the possibility of a new standard to cover removal of these compounds. It was discussed that NSF / ANSI Standard 53 may not apply because the health effects are not clearly defined. A task force was formed to look a developing a new standard for sustainability/recycling. The green aspects of POU/POE treatment devices are becoming more important. Various clarifications and improvements to the existing standards were discussed to ensure the different certifying agencies are all using the same methodologies.
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October 2008 |
Ken Schaeffer gave a presentation at the 23rd Annual International Activated Carbon Conference on October 7, 2008 held in Pittsburgh regarding the Activated Carbon Industry.
Ken’s presentation focused on the many changes that are taking place in the worldwide activated carbon market, particularly with respect to pricing and supply constraints. In his presentation, there were several key areas that are affecting supply and demand of activated carbon:
● Metallurgical grade coal price increasing 150%
● Chinese demand for coal increasing while some plants that produce coal are shutting down due to environmental regulations
● Import tax of 62-220% on coal/coconut-shell activated carbons coming out of China
● Domestic coal producers at or near capacity
● Ocean freight increasing 25%
● Increased demand for coconut shell activated carbons are putting pressure on producers and coconut char prices
● New regulations for water treatment plants and coal-fired power plants that may require several hundred million pounds more of activated carbon in the next decade
Mr. Schaeffer also discussed that some importers are suspected of “skirting” the duty by shipping Chinese activated carbons to another country and then importing to the United States.
Another major domestic carbon producer spoke about a newly developed test method that will allow testing of any coal-based activated carbon product that is imported to determine the exact location of where the coal was mined. This test will be able to detect which companies are illegally bringing in Chinese coal-base activated carbon.
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September 2008 |
Carbon Resources is active at this years 51st Pacific Water Quality Associations Annual Convention and Trade Show in Anaheim, CA.
Robert Potwora, Technical Director, at Carbon Resources will be giving a presentation at the Pacific Water Quality Association annual convention on October 16th at 10:00 am. His hour presentation will be on “Chlorine and Chloramine Removal using Activated Carbon” and will focus on different types of activated carbon media, optimum system design and other criteria.
This years trade show will be held at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Anaheim, next to Disneyland. The trade show will be for 2 days: Thursday, October 16th from 12:30-4:00 and Friday, October 17th from 9:30-1:00. Carbon Resources will have a booth again this year so stop by and check out some of our new products.
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July 2008 |
New BioGard™ Anti-microbial Product
Carbon Resources is partnering with Molecular Products to provide an alternative product to silver-impregnated carbons for anti-microbial applications. The Chemsorb®BioGard™ product features a new patented antimicrobial agent effective against a wide spectrum of microorganisms, fungi, yeasts and mold and passed NSF 42 testing for bacteriostasis and extractables.
The BioGard™ product has a BIOSAFE antimicrobial agent which is a quaternary ammonium silane polymer that is deposited within the pores of the activated carbon. This process creates a “pin cushion” configuration of molecules that are permanently bound to the activated carbon. These molecules act like millions of molecular swords physically disrupting the target organism’s cell membrane.
Unlike silver impregnated carbons, this new product exhibits extremely low toxicity to human health and does not leach into the filtered water. The activity on the activated carbon remains intact and because coconut shell carbon is the base material, it has high surface area, high hardness and low dust. In recent tests, we have found that the BioGard™ has almost double the effectiveness than silver impregnated carbons as shown in the graph below:
In addition to this being a lower cost alternative to silver, it also has other
Benefits. The antimicrobial technology is not progressively depleted with use like silver metal ions and therefore exhibits a longer service life. It is also safer and environmentally friendly.
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June 2008 |
Article Published in This Month’s Water Conditioning and Purification Magazine
Robert Potwora and Ken Schaeffer co-wrote an article for the June edition of Water Conditioning and Purification Magazine titled “Advantages of Coconut Shell Versus Bituminous Coal Base Activated Carbons”.
Click here to see article.
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May 2008 |
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Carbon Resources, Activated Carbon Provider, Adds New Board Member
James P. McAliney appointed to Board of Directors of activated carbon provider, Carbon Resources
Oceanside, CA (PRWEB) May 15, 2008 – Carbon Resources, an activated carbon provider, today announced the appointment of James P. McAliney to the Carbon Resources Board of Directors. Mr. McAliney has over 25 years of sales and marketing experience in the global markets of chemical engineering. In his tenure as Marketing Manager for Activated Carbon, he increased sales of activated carbon products and services through negotiation of multiyear, multimillion dollar contracts. As the Business Manager for North America, Polyamides, he structured and negotiated cooperative ventures to leverage worldwide marketing capabilities for the company.
Mr. McAliney spent four years as the Global General Manager for Polyamides in Paris, France. During this time he oversaw marketing efforts and built a top-producing sales team. He is currently the General Manager/Project Director for Glass Coatings & Expoxides in Pennsylvania.
"Having worked in the activated carbon business for over 10 years, I am impressed with Carbon Resources growth and product offering. The Carbon Resources team has a great deal of practical hands on experience and technology expertise which explains their high double digit growth. Carbon Resources creativity and fast response, align them well for continued success in this rapidly changing industry. My 25 years of international business experience will assist them in defining a longer term plan for growth, both within the U.S. and worldwide. I am happy to be part of it," said James McAliney.
"Carbon Resources has had a working relationship with Jim for many years and we are honored to have him become part of our Board of Directors. His experience in creating business plans and strategies for fast-track growth companies and global market expansion is exactly what we need right now. Our company is positioned for tremendous growth both domestically and internationally. Jim’s international manufacturing and marketing knowledge is going to be an important advisory role for us," said Ken Schaeffer, president of Carbon Resources.
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April 2008 |
Carbon Resources Goes Green
The three most common base materials for producing activated carbons are wood, coal and coconut. Of these three, coconut shell is the most “green” product with respect to renewable resources. The coconut tree produces coconuts three times a year, while the tree is left to produce again, whereas wood-based carbon comes from trees which take several years to mature.
To celebrate going green, we will package our coconut shell carbons in green poly bags, starting with the 55 pound bags.
In addition, our new joint-venture plant in Mexico utilizes a kiln to char the coconut shells instead of the traditional pit charring which emits large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Capturing the carbon dioxide in the kiln reduces emissions up to 90% from traditional methods.
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March 2008 |
Celebration and Education at this Year’s WQA Trade Show in Vegas March 26-28th
Carbon Resources is hosting a “Tropical Night” Hospitality Suite at Mandalay Bay’s exquisite Vista Suite on Wednesday, March 26th at 6:30pm
in celebration of their new joint venture plant in Mexico as well as the completion of their 10th year anniversary. All attendees are welcome to stop by for drinks, hors d’oeuvres and door prizes while listening to Island music. In order to obtain admittance, stop by booth #349 for a lapel pin and to get location information for a fabulous evening!
In addition, Robert Potwora, Technical Director, will be giving an Educational Seminar in the General Hall Education Area One at 3:00pm on Thursday, March 27th. The presentation will be “The Advantages of Coconut Shell Carbon versus Coal”
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January 2008 |
KEN SCHAEFFER WRITES TECHNICAL ARTICLE FOR WATER TECHNOLOGY MAGAZINE
Ken Schaeffer wrote an article that was published in the January 2008 publication of Water Technology titled “Match Treatment type to Carbon Type”. The article reviews three different base materials of activated carbon and how each of these materials have different properties and treatment effects. The article has high resolution photos of the three base materials: wood, coal and coconut shell.
Click here to read full article
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December 2007 |
Robert Potwora was Nominated Vice Chairman of ASTM International D-28 Committee
Robert Potwora, Technical Director, was named Vice Chairman of ASTM International D-28 committee on activated carbons at their annual meeting on October 29 held in Tampa. This committee dictates all the testing protocols for manufacturers of activated carbon. The committee is currently working on some new tests for floaters in activated carbons, vapor pressure drop through activated carbons and mercury capacity in flue gas. His term is for three years.
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October 2007 |
| Pacific Water Quality Trade Show 50th Annual Convention and Tradeshow
Carbon Resources will be exhibiting for the first time at the PWQA that will be held October 23-26th at the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, CA. Mr Ken Schaeffer will be giving a presentation entitled "GAC: Right Product - Right Job" on Thursday, October 25th.
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September 2007 |
| Annual Employee FUN DAY Event
Carbon Resources annual FUN DAY was held on the 19th of September. The entire staff spent the day/evening in San Diego touring the USS Midway that was commissioned in 1945, a two-hour harbor cruise, strolling along the downtown waterfront area and ending with a great dinner at The Fish Market.
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August 2007 |
| Carbon Resources welcomes its newest member to the team!
Katie Jenkins will be in our accounts payable and accounts receivable department. Katie brings with her a love of working with numbers and a knack at collecting money. She has been a great addition to our team and we are happy to have her on board.
Katie can be reached at Katie@carbonresources.com
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July 2007 |
| CHINA ACTIVATED CARBON UPDATE
It has been a very tumultuous year in the activated carbon industry. In early 2006, Calgon Carbon Corp. and Norit Americas filed an anti-dumping petition against imported steam activated carbon from China (even though Calgon is the biggest importer of Chinese carbon).
The petition was successful and this Spring final new duties of approx. 67% were levied by the Department of Commerce (DOC) and the International Trade Commission (ITC) on activated carbon from China. This is added to previous existing duty of 4.8% so total new duty is now approx. 71% and this will be in place for 5-10 years. In the short term, Calgon and Norit receive the anti-dumping duties as they are the damaged business parties in the U.S, but that will end in Oct. 2007 when the Byrd Amendment expires and anti-dumping duties will then go to the General Fund.
China carbon prices also have been going up due to more coal mines closing because of safety and environmental problems, ever higher ocean freight rates (doubled in last few years) and coal consumption in China is at all time high due to scores of new power plants being constructed in the country so coal availability is limited and coal prices have risen.
Just this month, another 13% price increase in China activated carbons was announced to start July 1, 2007 because the 13% VAT (tax) rebate that the China government allowed is being eliminated. Carbon Resources is raising prices on China coal carbons (our “B” series) and “W” series wood-base carbons, effective July, 1, 2007.
The bottom line is that China supplied about 25% of the U.S. activated carbon requirements and now that supply has been curtailed and prices have risen approx. 85% in the past year. The domestic producers have accordingly raised their prices so the entire market is now at a much higher price level for coal base activated carbons.
Carbon Resources suggests that our customers consider switching from coal carbon to coconut shell carbon if their application permits. Coconut shell activated carbon has historically been considered a premium carbon and was priced much higher than coal carbon, but that is no longer the case. Coconut shell is harder, less dust and fines, typically more active and is about 10% more dense than bituminous coal carbon. Coconut shell carbon is available in sizes such as 8x30, 8x16, 12x30, 12x40, and 20x50 all in regular and acid-washed grades. Please contact us for more information.
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June 2007 |
Ken Schaeffer, President, wrote a follow-up article on the anti-dumping tariffs on coal base carbons being imported from China that was published in the Water Conditioning and Purification magazines June issue..
Click here to read more
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March 2007 |
Carbon Resources celebrates it’s 10th year exhibiting at the Water Quality Trade Show Association that was held March 27th through the 30th in Orlando, Florida. “It was one of our better trade shows because we had such a big interest in our Spartan products for chloramines, sulfides and iron as well as being able to share with our existing customers the new products we are working on and our plans for plant expansions that will be occurring in 2007” states Kimberly Walsh, Vice President of Marketing. “We also had a lot of interest in our “A” series product which is a non-chinese coal base carbon. With price escalations on coal base products from China occurring because of the anti-dumping petition filed by Calgon Corporation and Norit, this product is attractive not only for it’s price but also for it’s high activity, low density characteristics.” Next year Carbon Resources will be giving a technical presentation at the annual trade show which will be held during March in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Click here for technical bulletin on Spartan
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February 2007 |
| Keri Homer will be joining Carbon Resources as a Customer Service Representative.
"Keri has a great attitude and brings a lot of discipline, experience and enthusiasm to our office. Since our motto has always been to "be proactive and anticipate the customers needs", it is important to us to keep customer service as a main focus as our business faces explosive growth." says Kimberly Walsh, Vice President of Marketing.
Keri can be reached at keri@carbonresources.com. Please send her an e-mail and welcome her aboard
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January 2007 |
Carbon Resources has developed a range of non-chemically impregnated activated carbons called Spartan Series. The Spartan Series products have been surface modified during manufacturing to significantly enhance the carbons' capability for rapidly decomposing noxious compounds such as hydrogen sulfide, and chloramines.
The Spartan series of products are all produced from our high quality coconut shell carbons, and in addition to their capacity to handle sulfides etc., they have much higher surface areas than most other competitive brands. This enables them to remove larger quantities of other organic species which may be present in the system.
Because of the enhanced surface, it has fast adsorption kinetics and typical contact times of 5-15 minutes are not as critical.
The benefits of Spartan Series™ are:
- No chemicals
- No bed fires
- No disposal problem
- High quality coconut shell
- High capacity for hydrogen sulfide
- High capacity for chloramines
- High capacity for organics
There will be a technical bulletin on the Carbon Resources web site published next month regarding the Spartan Series effects on chloramines.
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December 2006 |
| Carbon Resources completes it’s 10th year of business this month and plans to celebrate by hosting a two-day event for it’s customers sometime in 2007. The event will consist of one full day of technical seminars on activated carbon followed by an evening of entertainment hosted by Carbon Resources. The following day will be a golf outing and/or other activities for our customers to enjoy. Information will be sent in the mail or anyone interested can e-mail us at info@carbonresources.com and in the subject matter type in "10 year celebration".
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November 2006 |
| Mr Ken Schaeffer, President of Carbon Resources, was elected to a three year term on the Board of Directors of the PWQA (Pacific Water Quality Association) at the PWQA annual meeting held in the Queen Mary Hotel in Long Beach, CA on October 25, 2006. Ken will be involved in planning technical presentations for future PWQA meetings and act as advisor on matters concerning the used of activated carbon in POU treatment applications.
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October 2006 |
| Oceanside, CA (PRWEB) September 26, 2006 – In October 2006, the U.S. government will legislate substantially higher duty levels on certain steam activated carbon imported from China. The International Trade Commission and Department of Commerce are reviewing the case right now. It is unclear whether there will be one overall duty fee or if there will be separate duty fees according to the specific Chinese manufacturing facility.
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September 2006 |
| CARBON RESOURCES REACHES OUT TO THE COMMUNITY
On Saturday, September 9th, Carbon Resources employees volunteered at an event that was sonspored by one of their customers, Stone Brewing, to help with the local chapter of the Boys & Girls Club of San Marcos, Fight ALD Organization, Surfrider Foundation and the Palomar Family YMCA of Escondido. The event helped raise over $125,000.00 and had over 6000 attendees.
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August 2006 |
| Mr. Ken Schaeffer will be speaking at the Water Quality Association 2006 Mid-Year Leadership COnference that will be held in Park City, UT on September 7, 2006. The topic will be on the activated carbon Anti-dumping petition filed by Calgon Corporation and Norit Americas regarding the coal base chinese import duties being imposed as early as October 2006. A representative from Calgon Corporation will also be part of the presentation.
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July 2006 |
| TECHNICAL ARTICLE TO APPEAR IN WATER CONDITIONING AND PRUIFICATION MAGAZINE
Robert Potwora, Technical Director at Carbon Resources, LLC wrote an technical article that appear in Water Conditioning and Purification Magazine this month. The artilce was titled "Trialomethane Removal with Activated Carbon" and discussed common trihalomethanes, regulatory information, system design and a comparison of coal base activated carbon versus coconut shell activated carbon.
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June 2006 |
| Carbon Resources signed a Letter of Intent for future distribution and marketing of special high grade “nut shell” activated carbon manufactured by Kona Carbons, LLC. The “nut shell” carbon is well suited for applications that require a microporous activated carbon with very low ash, excellent hardness and high activity.
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June 2006 |
| After several months of testing a new product design for an odor control consumer product, sourcing materials and locating a production facility in China, Carbon Resources and their associate companies move forward and obtain contract to build several hundred thousand filter units per year.
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May 2006 |
| Carbon Resources adds it’s third southern California warehousing facility to accommodate the 50% growth it has experienced in the last 12 months. IN addition, Mary Christine joins the company to focus on the accounts payable, accounts receivable side of the business.
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April 2006 |
| Ken Schaeffer is scheduled to testify in Washington at an anti-dumping hearing in regards to a petition filed by Calgon Corporation and Norit America’s. The suit alleges that the Chinese activated carbons products have been sold in the United States below their costs and duties as high as 600% are requested.
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March 2006 |
| Ken Schaeffer, President of Carbon Resources was nominated as Vice Chairman of IACMA (International Activated Carbon Manufacturers Association).
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February 2006 |
| Carbon Resources wins a two-year contract to supply over 2.5 million pounds a year of their sabre series™ “A” product to a major manufacturer of aquarium products.
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January 2006 |
| Sonia Hollingsworth has been promoted to Director of Customer Service. Ken Schaeffer states, “Sonia is the perfect person to fill this role. She is bilingual which assists us greatly with our Mexico customers but even more importantly, she is committed to being proactive with all our customers by anticipating their needs and responding quickly to their requests.
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November 2005 |
| Carbon Resources Sri Lankan plant adds a second line of new micronizing, screening and blending equipment to accommodate the tremendous growth in the block technology market place. Richard Mumford, Director of Manufacturing adds, “We are focused on being a key player in this market by supplying the highest level of quality control and having state-of-the-art equipment in managing production.”
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October 2005 |
| Due to the expanded customer base and desire to be able to service our customers better, Carbon Resources purchases their first delivery truck for California, Nevada and Arizona LTL deliveries. Kim Walsh commented, “This will allow us to control the delivery schedule while reducing our customer’s costs by providing a low cost transportation alternative.”
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September 2005 |
| Carbon Resources has signed an agreement with a major consumer manufacturer to consult, evaluate, perform lab scale testing, design and review the feasibility of a new product designed to eliminate odors from an every day use consumer product.
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August 2005 |
| Ken Schaeffer, President of Carbon Resources will be the “Leadership Speaks” presenter at this years annual International Activated Carbon Conference given by PACS. This years conference will be held in Pittsburg, PA on October 6-7th. His presentation will focus on the state of the industry.
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July 2005 |
| Robert Potwora joins Carbon Resources (Oceanside, CA) as their Technical Director. He has over 25 years experience working with two of the worlds largest activated carbon manufacturers. Prior to joining Carbon Resources he has held various technical positions in Quality Control, Laboratory Management and Applications Engineering. He has experience with water, wastewater, food, chemical, pharmaceutical and vapor phase activated carbon systems.
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May 2005 |
| Ken Schaeffer, President of Carbon Resources provided an article that appeared in the Water Purification & Conditioning Magazine this month. The article topic is “The Care and Use of Activated Carbon.”
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March 2005 |
| Carbon Resources celebrates it’s 9th year as members of Water Quality Association and exhibits at their annual exhibition in Las Vegas on the 28,29, and 30th of this month. They will attend many of the sub-committee meetings such as The Water Science Committee.
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February 2005 |
| Carbon Resources joins The Texas Water Quality Association and will continue to attend their annual meetings and outings.
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January 2005 |
| Carbon Resources signs an agreement to market an Indian produced coconut shell carbon in the United States. “The Sri Lankan plant will focus on our high quality, high activity products while the Indian plant will provide more of the commodity type activated carbons. With the tremendous growth we are experiencing, we had to expand our product base.” comments Ken Schaeffer, President of Carbon Resources.
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September 2004 |
| Kimberly Walsh, Vice President of Marketing gives a presentation on Activated Carbon for Vapor Applications at the annual NAFA (National Air Filtration Association). This years annual meeting which was held aboard the Royal Caribbean - Enchantment of the Seas departing Fort Lauderdale, FL.
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July 2004 |
| Carbon Resources becomes a member of the Pacific Coast Water Quality Association and will attend their annual meetings.
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November 2003 |
| Ken Scheaffer, President of Carbon Resources is named Chairman of the Information and Exchange committee for IACMA (International Activated Carbon Manufacturers Association).
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October 2003 |
| The ASTM testing labs were expanded and moved to the Oceanside facility. A limited but necessary number of ASTM tests such as hardness, Iodine, density, etc. will be performed in the newly built lab. Ken Schaeffer, President and Vice Chairmen of ASTM committee D-28 says, “This is to further our commitment to providing a high level of quality control on our products and to provide checks and balances at the plant level.”
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August 2003 |
| Carbon Resources becomes a member of the National Air Filtration Association (NAFA). The annual meetings will be attended by Kimberly Walsh.
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June 2003 |
| Carbon Resources purchased a 10,000 square foot warehouse office facility located at 2535 Jason Court in Oceanside, CA. This is to compliment their warehouse facilities located in Los Angeles just 15 miles from the Long Beach port. Kim Walsh commented, “We needed to increase our warehouse capacity another 20% to accommodate our growth. This warehouse will be specifically used to handle repackaging of our product.”
New personnel will be hired to manage shipping/receiving and packaging.
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March 2003 |
| Ken Schaeffer was a guest speaker for the CON AGRA conference held in Monterey, Mexico. His presentation was entitled “Black Magic for the Water Treatment Market” .
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February 2003 |
| Sonia Hollingsworth joins Carbon Resources as their Customer Service Manager. Sonia brings with her years of experience in customer service and a great cheerful attitude. Her desire to serve our customers to the best of her ability shows on a daily basis.
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December 2002 |
| An article appeared in the Water Purification & Conditioning Magazine written by Ken Schaeffer entitled “Understanding ASTM Activated Carbon Standards”.
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November 2002 |
| Ken Schaeffer, President of Carbon Resources is named Vice Chairman of the ASTM D-28 committee which governs most of the testing protocols for activated carbons.
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October 2002 |
| Carbon Resources, LLC, Oceanside, CA – Carbon Resources, LLC has opened an East Coast office in Pennsylvania to improve national market coverage. Frank Trenga, National Sales Manager, will manage the office. He will be responsible for marketing and sales of several activated carbon products recently introduced to the marketplace including bamboo-base powders and pellets and low-density granular coal-based carbons. Ken Schaeffer, President, adds “Frank brings a tremendous amount of market, product and applications knowledge to Carbon Resources. With Frank’s prior work for carbon manufacturers such as Atochem and CECA and his 15-plus years of activated carbon experience, we are fortunate to have him on our team.”
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June 2002 |
| Carbon Resources, LLC, Oceanside, CA – Ms. Kimberly Walsh, Vice-President of Carbon Resources, LLC gave a speech on May 16th at the grand opening of a new bamboo activated carbon plant in China. Carbon Resources has signed an exclusive agreement to market the bamboo activated carbon in the United States/Canada and Mexico. “This is the first plant to manufacture activated carbon out of bamboo feedstock and we are very excited at the potential of this unique product in various liquid and vapor phase applications due to it’s distinctive pore size, pore volume and adsorptive capacity. This product will be produced in powder, granular and pellet form” states Ms. Walsh.
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January 2002 |
| Carbon Resources, LLC, Oceanside, CA – Mr. Ken Schaeffer, President, has been named Vice Chairman of the ASTM committee D-28 on activated carbon. The ASTM (American Society for Testing Methods) D-28 committee writes, reviews and issues all ASTM Standards regarding activated carbon media testing and specification. ASTM Standards are used worldwide for activated carbon manufacturing quality control and user carbon comparison testing.
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October 2001 |
| Carbon Resources, LLC, Oceanside, CA has introduced a unique new coal base product to compliment their sabre series™ activated carbon line. This new "A" series activated carbon combines the benefits of lignite and bituminous coal into one product. It has a wide range of pore sizes, large surface area, good hardness, and very low water soluble ash. The low-density nature of this product reduces the amount of carbon needed in most cases by about 25-30% compared to bituminous coal products and 10-15% compared to lignite coal carbons. Ken Schaeffer, President, states, "after years of development, we have a product that is unlike any other coal base material in the marketplace and has a wide acceptance among our customers. This product compliments our mission to remain the most diverse supplier of quality activated carbon products."
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June 2001 |
| Carbon Resources, LLC, Oceanside, CA has received NSF 42 certification on their sabre series™ "C" coconut shell activated carbon products. This completes their NSF certification program initiated over one year ago when they received their NSF certification on their sabre series™ "B" coal base activated carbon products. Ken Schaeffer, President states, "As members of ASTM activated carbon committee and Water Quality Association, this NSF certification along with our FDA Codex compliance completes our commitment in sabre series™ being a high quality activated carbon product which is a necessity in today’s water quality environment."
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November 2000 |
| OCEANSIDE, CA - Carbon Resources LLC has signed a contract to market coconut-shell activated carbon products throughout North America on behalf of Sri Lanka-based JB Carbon Activators.
Financial terms of the agreement were not released.
Under the agreement, JB Carbon Activators will manufacture coconut-shell granular and powder activated carbons under Carbon Resources quality-control standards, according to company officials.
"JB Carbons has been qualified as a quality manufacturer for our [product] line with [its] stringent [quality control] practices and wide range of value-added processing capabilities, such as impregnation, washing and custom sizing coupled with laser particle analysis," said Kimberly Walsh, vice president of marketing for Carbon Resources. "Our agreement with JB Carbon Activators supports our focus of having the most diverse line of activated carbon products in the marketplace.""
Earlier this year Carbon Resources signed an agreement to distribute natural char activated carbon to the water filtration market in the United States on behalf of Tate & Lyle Process Technology in Greenock, Scotland.
"The demand for coconut-shell carbon in the water purification market will continue to grow due to the proposed strict limits on arsenic and MTBE," Walsh said. "We have also seen a growth in silver-impregnated coconut-shell carbon due to heightened concern of bacteria."
Carbon Resources has representation and distributorship agreements with a network of companies that offer many types of activated carbon base materials available for various applications such as coal, wood, lignite and carbon cloth or fiber. The company also acts as a consultant to investigate options for disposing of spent carbon.
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October 2000 |
| Carbon Resources, LLC, Oceanside, CA has signed a distributor agreement with JB Carbon Activators of Sri Lanka to market their coconut shell activated carbon products throughout North America. Under the agreement, JB Carbon Activators will manufacture and private label sabre series™ brand name coconut-shell granular and powder activated carbons under Carbon Resources strict standards. Kimberly Walsh, Vice-President of Marketing for Carbon Resources stated “JB Carbons has been qualified as a quality manufacturer for our sabre series line with their stringent QC practices and wide range of value-added processing capabilities such as impregnation, washing and custom sizing coupled with laser particle analysis. Our agreement with JB Carbon Activators supports our focus of having the most diverse line of activated carbon products in the marketplace. For information on Carbon Resources product line visit their web site at www.carbonresources.com or call 760-630-5724.
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June 2000 |
| Carbon Resources, LLC, Oceanside, CA has signed a distributor agreement with Tate & Lyle Process Technology, Greenock, Scotland to sell their Brimacª natural char activated carbon in the water filtration market throughout the United States. Ken Schaeffer, President of Carbon Resources emphasizes "This agreement continues to support our focus of having the most diverse line of activated carbon products in the marketplace. The Brimacª product works well for adsorption of many heavy metals and further research is being done to determine itÕs effectiveness on fluorides, lead, arsenic and MTBE." For information on their product line visit their web site at www.carbonresoruces.com or call 760-630-5724.
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